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Comment By UN Human Rights Spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan On The Enforced Disappearance Of Two Activists In Guinea
Sunday, 21 July 2024, 4:23 pm | OHCHR
The rights to freedom of opinion, expression and peaceful assembly of all Guineans, including opposition activists, must be protected. More >>
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk Calls For Accountability And Dialogue In Bangladesh
Saturday, 20 July 2024, 5:11 am | OHCHR
Bangladesh’s political leaders must work with the country’s young population to find solutions to the ongoing challenges and focus on the country’s growth and development. Dialogue is the best and only way forward. More >>
Gaza: Killing Of Hind Rajab And Her Family – A War Crime Too Many, Warn Experts
Saturday, 20 July 2024, 4:59 am | OHCHR
The killing of five-year old Hind Rajab, her family and two paramedics may amount to a war crime, independent experts warned today, denouncing Israeli claims that its troops were not in the area at the time as “unacceptable.” More >>
Decriminalization Of LGBTQ+ People Saves Lives Joint Statement By UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Volker Türk
Saturday, 20 July 2024, 4:49 am | OHCHR
As courts and parliaments in a number of countries are in the midst of considering the legal framework around the rights of LGBTQ+ people, we highlight that punitive laws against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people violate human rights ... More >>
Central African Republic: Urgent Action Required To Address Human Rights Violations In Places Of Detention - UN Report
Friday, 19 July 2024, 4:00 am | OHCHR
Urgent and concrete action is required to ensure respect for human rights in places of detention in the Central African Republic (CAR), where torture and ill-treatment, illegal and arbitrary arrest and detention, malnutrition and poor healthcare are ... More >>
Institutionalised Forced Labour In North Korea Constitutes Grave Violations Of Human Rights – UN Report
Wednesday, 17 July 2024, 4:15 am | OHCHR
The use of forced labour by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) against its citizens has become deeply institutionalised and raises a broad range of serious human rights concerns, according to a report by the UN Human Rights Office released ... More >>
Sudan: UN Expert Raises Alarm At Dire Human Rights Situation
Tuesday, 16 July 2024, 4:24 am | OHCHR
Radhouane Nouicer, the Designated Expert on Sudan of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has sounded the alarm about the dire human rights situation in the country as the fighting spreads to new areas. More >>
States Should Respect Comprehensive Definition Of Detention Places As Part Of Torture Prevention Efforts, Says UN Body
Tuesday, 16 July 2024, 4:19 am | OHCHR
The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) on Monday called on all States parties to the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) to respect its comprehensive definition of places of deprivation of liberty. More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Marta Hurtado On Paraguay
Saturday, 13 July 2024, 4:35 am | OHCHR
We urge the authorities to engage in meaningful and inclusive consultations with human rights defenders, civil society and other organisations, and to guarantee a normative framework that fully complies with international human rights law. More >>
UN Experts Declare Famine Has Spread Throughout Gaza Strip
Wednesday, 10 July 2024, 4:00 am | OHCHR
The recent deaths of more Palestinian children due to hunger and malnutrition leaves no doubt that famine has spread across the entire Gaza strip, a group of independent experts said today. More >>
Volker Türk Deplores Wave Of Strikes Killing Dozens Of Civilians, Including Women And Children At Hospitals
Tuesday, 9 July 2024, 8:02 am | OHCHR
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today deplored the Russian Federation’s deadly wave of missile strikes on densely populated areas of Ukraine, which primarily affected Kyiv, Kryvi Rih, Pokrovsk and Dnipro. More >>
Experts Alarmed By Possible Extradition Of Refugee And Human Rights Defender Y Quynh Bdap From Thailand To Vietnam
Friday, 5 July 2024, 4:13 am | OHCHR
Independent experts* today expressed grave concern about Vietnam’s request to Thailand to extradite refugee and human rights defender Y Quynh Bdap, who co-founded Montagnards Stand for Justice, an organisation that advocates for indigenous rights in Vietnam. More >>
UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Volker Türk Delivers Update On The Human Rights Situation In Venezuela
Thursday, 4 July 2024, 4:03 am | OHCHR
Despite official figures indicating a five per cent growth in GDP in 2023, Venezuelans still face serious obstacles to accessing food, health and education. Women, people in rural areas, and Indigenous Peoples are disproportionately affected. More >>
Israel: UN Experts Condemn Decades Of Unfair Trials For Palestinians In The Occupied West Bank
Thursday, 4 July 2024, 4:00 am | OHCHR
Palestinians right to due process guarantees have been violated for 57 years UN experts said today denouncing the lack of fair trial in the occupied West Bank since June 1967. More >>
India Must End Racial Discrimination Against Rohingya, Cease Forced Deportation And Arbitrary Detention, UN Committee
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 4:14 am | OHCHR
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Tuesday called on India to end the arbitrary detention of Rohingya who fled Myanmar to India and refrain from forcible deportation and returns to Myanmar. More >>
Myanmar: New Report Urges Robust Support For Women, Girls And LGBT People In Post-coup Myanmar
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 4:06 am | OHCHR
The report describes threats to the economic, social, and cultural rights of women, girls, and LGBT people, including loss of economic independence, shrinking access to education and health care, and impacts of protracted displacement. More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan On Convictions Of Environmental Activists In Cambodia
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 4:01 am | OHCHR
The increasing use by Cambodian authorities of lèse majesté and other articles of Cambodia’s criminal code to penalise the exercise of human rights is deeply worrying. More >>
Torture Allegations Continue In Syria Despite ICJ Order: UN Expert
Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 4:06 am | OHCHR
Syria must implement the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and take action to eradicate all forms of torture and ill-treatment in the country, a UN expert said today. More >>
UN Torture Prevention Body Announces Visits For 2025 And Adopts General Comment
Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 4:01 am | OHCHR
The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) has announced plans to visit Afghanistan, Burundi, France, and Mexico in the first half of 2025, and confirmed upcoming visits to Bolivia, Nigeria, Greece, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the second ... More >>
Myanmar: UN Expert Spotlights Role Of Foreign Banks In Facilitating Probable War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity
Friday, 28 June 2024, 2:03 pm | OHCHR
Foreign banks are facilitating the Myanmar military junta’s access to weapons and related materials that are sustaining its campaign of violence and brutality against the people of Myanmar, according to a new report released today by Tom Andrews. More >>
